ADULTERY

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• It upheld a September 2018 judgment by Constitution Bench which had struck adultery out of the penal statute book.
  
  
• The original judgment found that Section 497 (adultery) of the Indian Penal Code cannot “command” married couples to remain loyal to each other for the fear of penal punishment.
  
  
• Two individuals may part if one cheats, but to attach criminality to infidelity is going too far.
  
  
• The court had reasoned that there was no data whatsoever to support claims that abolition of adultery as a crime would result in “chaos in sexual morality” or an increase of divorce.